Website security is a never ending debate in the WordPress community. Normally, when you launch a website, you forget taking security measures unless something breaks. Keeping an audit log is an effective way of improving your WordPress site security. When I (@MaedahBatool) came to know about it, I started hunting for the possible ways of doing it. And once again WordPress plugins came to rescue. However, when I scrolled through the repository very few options existed. After, a good deal of testing, trial, and error — I ended up with the WP Security Audit Log plugin. It is a security logging plugin which […]

It’s a sad day for the WordPress community. I write this with a heavy heart, that Jesse Petersen — a Genesis Preferred Developer, theme and plugin developer, and so much more — lost his fight with Cystic Fibrosis today. He was a WordPress user since 2005, a developer since 2008 and a friend to many. Can you look over your life and say you’d be leaving those connected to you better off having known you? If not, start today. — Jesse Ⓦ Petersen (@jpetersen) July 3, 2017 I’m pretty sure; I was better off knowing him! Many would agree! Jesse […]

Published at AhmadAwais.com In the spirit of regular core contribution to the WordPress core, I have again contributed to WordPress 4.8. It’s a different kind of proud feeling you get when you give back. But most of all, I am happy because of my incredible wife — Maedah Batool — who also got props, her first core contribution. 🎉 WPCouple is now WordPress Core Contributor! 🤔 My involvement in the WordPress community is growing by every passing day. I consider it my family. I have made so many awesome friends here. This year so far, I have contributed about 40% to 50% […]

As a matter of fact let’s accept that developers hate doing grunt work. Instead of repeating things again and again, a pro web developer believes in hardcore automation and would love to invest time in automating things. WordPress site setup and browser testing strongly support the DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself philosophy and encourage you to automate the entire process with several automation tools and scripts.